Woman, daughter strangled; son stabbed
Of the three bodies recovered on Sunday night from Dhaka’s Uttar Khan area, the woman and her daughter were strangled to death while her son died due to a stab in the throat.
Sohel Mahmud, head of forensic medicine department at Dhaka Medical College, told reporters after conducing autopsies on the decomposed bodies yesterday.
Law enforcers suspect that 27-year-old Mohik Hasan Rochi might have committed suicide after killing his mother Jahanara Khatun, 48, and sister Tasfia Sultana Meem, 20.
“We recovered a kitchen knife stained with blood. All the doors and windows of their home were locked from inside. There is no sign of outsider’s entry in the flat,”
Khandaker Nasir Uddin, inspector (investigation) of Uttar Khan Police Station told The Daily Star.
No case has been filed yet as family members are busy with the burial, he said.
Around 9pm on Sunday, police recovered the bodies on information from neighbours that a foul odour was coming from the house the victims had rented earlier this month. Police suspect that they were killed on Friday.
Sirajul Islam, Jahanara’s brother-in-law, said on the phone that the family faced difficulties in controlling the “mentally unstable” Meem as she used to scream occasionally and vandalise furniture. Rochi was depressed as he was not getting any job after graduating from university, he added.
The family was going through hardship since the father Iqbal Hossain, a government service holder, died three years back, he said.
“I called Jahanara on Friday afternoon and talked about Meem’s treatment. They couldn’t be reached since then,” he said.
Sirajul said the family came to Dhaka from Bhairab upazila in Kishoreganj on May 4 to erect a building on a land owned by Jahanara and her three siblings in Uttar Khan, near their rented house.
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